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AbB 12, 119 (P510642)

Letter, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	AbB 12, 119
ID	P510642
Museum no.	BM 097442
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter

Transliteration (ATF)

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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	a-na a-da-ia-tum	to Adayatum
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma {d}suen-sze-me-ma	thus Sîn-šeme:
4	{d}utu li-ba-al-li-it,-ka	May Šamaš keep you alive!
5	sza#-al-ma#-ku ki-ma te-isz-te-ne2-mu-u2	I am well; like a teštenēmû-demon
6	a-na <pa>-an gi#-ir-ri-im an-ni-im	to the front of this chariot
7	[u2]-s,i2#-ma te-eq-ru-ba-tam	he went out and the extispicy
8	[x x (x)] x x-ma u2-ul i-di-szu#-nu-szi-ma#	... but he does not give them and
9	[...] x-nim	... nim
reverse
1	[x] x x x
2	ka#-asz-da-ka#	of Kašda
3	x x [x x]-tum# x x [(x)] x	... ...
4	x x x x ta ka AD	... father
5	la i-si2-ik szum-ma a-hi at-ta	If you, my brother,
6	t,e4-em-ka u3 t,e4-em	Your report and the report
7	_e2_ na-ap-t,a3-ri#-szu	the house of his napṭaru
8	szu#-up-ra-am a-x-ra-am asz-szu-re-em	Send me ... as a gift!
9	u3 tup-pi2 x [x (x)]-ka#	and a tablet of yours
10	szu-t,i-ir#-szu	his writing-board

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